File sharing issues. We anticipated this and haven't come up with a workable solution yet.
This is SO COOL! Kids are using educational apps (EVEN KINDERS) and then taking a screenshot of their score and then EMAILING the image to their teacher to add to their digital portfolio. We need to figure out a way for our kids to email their creations, data, images, etc.: a central gmail account? hmmm. http://www.edweek.org/dd/articles/2012/02/08/02mobile.h05.html?cmp=SOC-SHR-TW
Simple trick - keep several rolls of Rubbermaid Shelf Liner with the iPads. Use to pad desks or tables and to keep the iPads from bumping into each other during storage. NOT meant as a replacement for cases, but a very useful and inexpensive additional "tool" for the iPad toolbox.
Consider color-coded cases for your iPad. It is much easier for first graders to remember “go get the blue ones” than to remember “go get devices 13-18." We use the brightly-colored MiniSuit by Vizu, which is available from amazon.com. Make the wallpaper image a jpeg of the device number. You can also reinforce the color-coding by matching the image color to the case color.
TIPS or BEST PRACTICES
Wow :( Getting teachers on board can be very tricky. This line jumped out at me "the fact remains there are still many teachers who haven't embraced laptops after 15 years of exposure let alone a completely different system present in the iPad."
http://mgleeson.edublogs.org/2012/01/28/getting-teachers-on-board-the-ipad-express/
File sharing issues. We anticipated this and haven't come up with a workable solution yet.
This is SO COOL! Kids are using educational apps (EVEN KINDERS) and then taking a screenshot of their score and then EMAILING the image to their teacher to add to their digital portfolio. We need to figure out a way for our kids to email their creations, data, images, etc.: a central gmail account? hmmm.
http://www.edweek.org/dd/articles/2012/02/08/02mobile.h05.html?cmp=SOC-SHR-TW
Simple trick - keep several rolls of Rubbermaid Shelf Liner with the iPads. Use to pad desks or tables and to keep the iPads from bumping into each other during storage. NOT meant as a replacement for cases, but a very useful and inexpensive additional "tool" for the iPad toolbox.
iPad tips.
Good ideas to consider, especially number 7.
What's it like to actually DEPLOY iPads in a school.
Another deploy.
ANOTHER deploy with some SUPERIOR ideas - naming machines, restoring from backup, etc.
BRILLIANT ideas here, including:
Consider color-coded cases for your iPad. It is much easier for first graders to remember “go get the blue ones” than to remember “go get devices 13-18." We use the brightly-colored MiniSuit by Vizu, which is available from amazon.com.
Make the wallpaper image a jpeg of the device number. You can also reinforce the color-coding by matching the image color to the case color.
Possible headphones?
Apple TV ideas
And more Apple TV ideas
All it takes is an iPad, a projector, a display (LOWER THE TV's or get pull-down screens) and Apple TV. So simple.
iPads in Schools - LiveBinder